Molecular and nanoengineering approaches towards activatable cancer immunotherapy

C Zhang, K Pu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer immunotherapy is an emerging treatment strategy that modulates the immune
system to fight against cancer. Although several immunotherapeutic agents have been …

Enhancing the safety of CAR-T cell therapy: Synthetic genetic switch for spatiotemporal control

L Lu, M Xie, B Yang, W Zhao, J Cao - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is a promising and precise targeted
therapy for cancer that has demonstrated notable potential in clinical applications. However …

A small and highly sensitive red/far-red optogenetic switch for applications in mammals

Y Zhou, D Kong, X Wang, G Yu, X Wu, N Guan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optogenetic technologies have transformed our ability to precisely control biological
processes in time and space. Yet, current eukaryotic optogenetic systems are limited by …

Immunotherapy for malignant glioma: current status and future directions

H Wang, T Xu, Q Huang, W Jin, J Chen - Trends in pharmacological …, 2020 - cell.com
Glioma is the most common intracranial primary malignancy, with limited treatment options
and a poor overall survival (OS). Immunotherapy has been used successfully in various …

Engineering AraC to make it responsive to light instead of arabinose

E Romano, A Baumschlager, EB Akmeric… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
The l-arabinose-responsive AraC and its cognate PBAD promoter underlie one of the most
often used chemically inducible prokaryotic gene expression systems in microbiology and …

Chemoattractant receptors BLT1 and CXCR3 regulate antitumor immunity by facilitating CD8+ T cell migration into tumors

ZS Chheda, RK Sharma, VR Jala… - The Journal of …, 2016 - journals.aai.org
Immunotherapies have shown considerable efficacy for the treatment of various cancers, but
a multitude of patients remain unresponsive for various reasons, including poor homing of T …

Optophysiology: Illuminating cell physiology with optogenetics

P Tan, L He, Y Huang, Y Zhou - Physiological reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Optogenetics combines light and genetics to enable precise control of living cells, tissues,
and organisms with tailored functions. Optogenetics has the advantages of …

Adoptive T‐cell therapy for cancer: The era of engineered T cells

C Bonini, A Mondino - European journal of immunology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Tumors originate from a number of genetic events that deregulate homeostatic mechanisms
controlling normal cell behavior. The immune system, devoted to patrol the organism against …

Light‐controlled mammalian cells and their therapeutic applications in synthetic biology

M Mansouri, T Strittmatter, M Fussenegger - Advanced Science, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ability to remote control the expression of therapeutic genes in mammalian cells in order
to treat disease is a central goal of synthetic biology‐inspired therapeutic strategies …

Optogenetic immunomodulation: shedding light on antitumor immunity

P Tan, L He, G Han, Y Zhou - Trends in biotechnology, 2017 - cell.com
Microbial opsin-based optogenetic tools have been transformative for neuroscience. To
extend optogenetic approaches to the immune system to remotely control immune …